The last guy is not bad but it was release in JAP for 2000yen ($18.50) wtf. That pricing better not stick on its way over here.

lurkingsalt

Why are people whining about a $2 skin that comes with sound clips? Man...

zgrowler2

Not a bad update to the PSN. I really enjoyed The Last Guy...might have to pick it up if it's a good price.

Force Unleashed was better than I though, but controls were pretty off and annoying. Although, the SC4 rendition of the character was more intimidating than the actual character in TFU.

One main question still remains...where's my WipEout HD?!

nflsonic

@LittleBigPlaneteer:

Yeah, the Ninja Gaiden stuff is another good example of that. I remember the skins for the Ace Combat planes also being head-scratchingly high.

I wonder if companies are actually getting good results from these prices, or if the business model is just so new they don't yet realize they'd be better off pricing these things at what most consumers would consider reasonable.

Bishmon

@Bishmon:

I'd agree with that. It does seem like $2.00 is around the standard price for extra characters, costumes or skins as far as DLC goes. The extra costume skins pack for Ninja Gaiden II for instance was 2.50, which also seems unreasonably high.

LittleBigPlaneteer

I thoroughly enjoyed The force unleashed. Oddly though, i think that Soul Calibur 4 did a better job on Starkiller's face than The Force did...

banana-3

wow, didn't realize $2 was so steep in an age of $60 games and $400 consoles...

grendell

THe Last Guy is as fun as I thought it would be.

libregkd

Booty! Score.

Wolfers

I'm enjoying The Last Guy quite a bit. Reminds me of the games I used to blow stacks of quarters on in the arcade. Those were the days...

Elly

@Bishmon: Agreed. For $2, I expect more than one character. $0.99 would be the perfect price.

Amazon_Chris

Oh yeah... I got me some booty.... ;)

Awoken

@TheIrishNinja: the Heavy Rain trailer is available on the European PSN store, along with new trailers for LBP, Killzone 2, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, Wipeout HD, and Sony Online MOntage video.

Jutah_F8

@LittleBigPlaneteer:

Then why not $1 or 50 cents? Why $2? The issue isn't them being compensated for the work, it's whether they should really be compensated $2 for that work, adding a single playable character to Hot Shots.

It's the same thing that had people so flummoxed over the horse armor for Oblivion. Sure, someone had to do the work, but no one thought the $2.50 was worth paying for that.

In other words, it's not having to pay necessarily, it's having to pay that.

Bishmon

@dawimp523: R&C so far has taken me 5 and a half hours to download...now it's installing it, which is taking some time as well! If the game was any bigger I think I would go crazy. So worth it though. I want to quest for Booty!

fenderfuel08

A very good update, TFU was pretty fun, a lot easier the second time around, not to be played too defensively.
Got R&C, Having fun so far, awesome graphics.
And now sportin the R&C wallpaper, lol.
Very pleased indeed...

x omega gold

@AngelMayLaugh:

It's a bit more in stores. It sells on Amazon currently for $29.99, but you could probably find it considerably cheaper other places, including the 2nd hand market (ebay, gamestops' preowned section, etc..)

LittleBigPlaneteer

I couldn't beat the AT-ST on normal...I got tired of randomly getting hit off the ledge and falling and just gave up...

JoRo1986

@LittleBigPlaneteerIs It the same price in stores?

AngelMayLaugh

I felt like I had so much power throwing Storm Troopers around, using Force Lightning, & knocking huge doors down! It definitely felt like a Star Wars movie. The controls were a little bit awkward for me. Whenever I try to throw something, it never goes where I want it to go. But still, very good demo! Yet, the demo for The Last Guy was even better! I had such an amazing time rescuing people from the purple zombies!

As for R&C: Quest for Booty, I'll probably get it whenever I play R&CF: ToD. But 2 Gigs! It took me over 3 hours to download Force Unleashed at 1.3 Gigs, so this game might take me 5 hours! And the game only lasts between 2-4 hours! It's like GT5: Prologue; it's mainly a teaser of what's to come.

dawimp523

pretty solid update. im only sad i dont yet have a Heavy Rain trailer on my ps3, but otherwise, lotta good shit here. off to grab the Last Guy demo soon.

TheIrishNinja

@LittleBigPlaneteer: No, you're right on the money :)

Luke Plunkett

@LittleBigPlaneteer: For $2, Kratos better be a damn fine character for the game that comes with plenty of extra stuff.

Amazon_Chris

I just finished Star War TFU... I gotta say this game is just okay so far... kinda hard to control the camera angle and throw objects... but I guess you gotta get used to it.

Kai200X

@AngelMayLaugh:

I'm not sure if you misunderstood or I am, but the Jeanne D'Arc is still for the PSP. It's just being sold on PSN now and the PC Playstation store.

LittleBigPlaneteer

yayy BOOTY!!

now there's gonna be quest for BOOTY jokes.. gehh..

just like call of DUTY... hehe

[i bought quest for booty. obviously =D]

Akmed

@Servant_of_Jashin: I thought it was a bit complicated to take in all at once, but you just have to take your time learning which ability goes with which button. The one thing that I didn't like was the object throwing. That's totally screwed.

Spartan1308™

Really good update...I'm currently downloading R&C Quest for Booty.

fenderfuel08

@Servant_of_Jashin: Which is why everything should go back to being 2D. Long live retro!

I want Quest for Booty real bad, but Disgaea 3 is coming out soon and I don't have money for both after my spending spree...

Elly

@Amazon_Chris:

Because it cost time and money for him to be created? It's like asking why you're paying extra for a Guitar Hero or Rock Band track. They actually got the guy who does Krato's voice to help with this and everything. All that doesn't come for free.

LittleBigPlaneteer

Also, what was in the PAL update this week?

Amazon_Chris

WHOA WHOA. Jeanne D'Arc? I may cut into my Ps3 savings for this.

AngelMayLaugh

Why must we pay $2 just to add one character to Hot Shots?

Amazon_Chris

Kratos for hot shots golf downloaded and in use. oh yea...force unleashed demo....pretty good. worth the download...everything else...meh...

Jnkzm4

u would think after years of gaming the would be a standardize way for the control the camera.

Servant_of_Jashin

Force was decent cept for the awful controls.

Servant_of_Jashin

oooh nice downloading right now

mpar

Pretty huge update. Anyone getting Kratos for Hot Shots Golf? :D

LittleBigPlaneteer

Force unleashed was ok, was not blown away by it or anything. Id rather have another kotor game.

snakepliskin

Started looking for booty at 9am this morning. Ended up really annoyed that it took until the evening for me to actually find some booty. I really wanted to get my hands on some booty in the afternoon, but even after the booty showed up, it took like an hour to...

Christ, all these puns suck.

dv8godd

@snakepliskin: I was talking about lbp in the second part. Man im fried, staying out late since my last semester starts monday. Awesome.

snakepliskin

@Spartan1308™: Yeah i thought the throwing was a little too jerky. I also thought targeting with r1 was one part unintuitive one part totally useless. Havent tried the last guy demo yet but it looks fun.

And for my part no way am i paying $2 for a kratos skin. I would however pay $2 for the kratos skin and the heavenly sword skin if they make either of them dlc. So i guess im saying that if hot shots golf is your favorite game $2 is a small price for a little bobble.

snakepliskin

"i got some booty, i got some booty!" - dave chappelle- half baked

jfx316

@zgrowler2: Because people like to whine on the internet. I'm the same way, so I'm part of the problem.

Really, really want to play the Force Unleashed demo. I heard the kiddie cartoon Star Wars movie was garbage, so I need a good Star Wars branded experience. I don't care if the controls are mushy, just let me force push things and use a lightsaber and I'll be as happy as a dumbass.

Thorax

my quest for booty shall continue!. who wouldve thought it would lead me 2 the internet?time 2 download some booty!

kilikafinal

@dawimp523: Damn. I'll have two cups of whatever he's drinking.

fecalchaos

@dv8godd: My god, instead of "Booty" as in treasure, you mean "Booty" as in a womans rear end. Hilarity! Amazement! YOU GET SOME OF THAT BOOT GOOD SIR.

I'm not making fun of you, it's just too many puns in this one thread. I'm going to go put my head in the oven.

Thorax

I would download the HAZE Domination Pack, but that would require purchasing HAZE. That's just something I'm not going to do.

BossVersion1

@dv8godd: Coulda got your hands on her booty: [latimesblogs.latimes.com]

Seems a shame to let that offer go to waste!

Elly

*cry* i just had to send my ps3 back due to a faulty blu ray drive. it's hard enough having to send away my precious, but to rub my nose in it with an awesome update. *cries some more*

Polite Society

@Thorax: The worst part is...

... I got halfway into the 2nd sentence before I realized my own puns had begun.

Oh... and it's not too many puns, per se... it's too many of the same one. :/

@Elly: Sadly, I'm not president. Such offers don't come up quite as much. If they did, I'd have had boot...

... nevermind.

dv8godd

@lurkingsalt:

It'll probably be about $14.99 or $9.99 if we're lucky. We're getting a lot more content than the Japanese got as well.

LittleBigPlaneteer

OMG!! Kotaku was right! The Last Guy is pure awesome!! I'm upset that I can't buy it right freaking now! T_T

Knoxximus (360/PSN)

I just spent 6 hours downloading Quest for Booty!

hagridore

@LittleBigPlaneteer:

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LittleBigPlaneteer

@Benzak:

Thae 500 yeh version is just for like one level. The full game is coming out over there on August 28th for 2,000 yen, or about $18US. Echchrome was around the same price in Japan (about $17US) but came over here for $9.99.

LittleBigPlaneteer

Wow, Forced Unleashed... A decent Star Wars game. I haven't seen one of those since the Dark Forces/Outcast series on the PC. Seems like so long since Jedi Academy...

PapaBear434

Oh wow, still no SC4 dlc.

munkah

@lurkingsalt: Lol, wut? It's like 600 yen, it'll be five dollars when it comes over here.

Benzak

Still no Driver? Dang.

Kratos doing golf sounds eerily hardcoar though.

Frank

Did anybody check out the Force Unleashed Demo yet? -_- My internet's too slow to do demos and DLC other than Songs for Rock Band =/

I h8 ph15h with a passion

I never liked Ratchet and Clank

Lukems

@banana-3:
Yea I totally agree, I like the SC4 face, he seems somehow more badass there, lol.

x omega gold

The Last Guy is absolutely terribad. :) Quest For Booty rocks, though!

HaydenTenno

The Last Guy is bloody amazing, i can't wait for it.

HikariOblivion

@Knoxximus (360/PSN): You can play it for free, and legally, on their site, though it's only the basic level, none of the extra zombies... Someone linked to it on the original article about it here...

As for Force Unleashed, it felt so much like Ninja Gaiden to me that I kept trying to do a downward slash, and he just stayed in the air while I got pummeled... Hmm... Maybe it just takes getting used to, but it looked pretty cool... People were oohing and awing over the physics, though, and I don't see anything in here that Havoc can't do...

bobtheduck

I queued stuff up for download around 6 or 6:30, and was playing Ratchet by 8:30 when I went upstairs to check on it, so my connection must've liked me today.

I enjoyed it, but if it had taken me 6 hours to download a game it took me 3 1/2 to beat, I might feel a little cheated.

The price wouldn't bother me, but I'd like to spend more time playing a game than acquiring it, if that makes sense.

jallen

Jeanne D'Arc, nice. I haven't seen it anywhere locally for less than $35+tax so I might grab that. $20 is pretty much the sweet spot for portable games as far as I'm concerned.

Does anyone know what the EA Sports Live Score Tracker thing is?

hastyp

@grendell: Seriously bro, People are bitching about 2$ like they could buy something else with it, wtf else are they gonna get with 2$? Get outta here... go get a big mac or soemthing if your just gonna bitch.

Xuchilbara

Downloaded R&C:Booty Time last night, and while I was cursing that it had taken two and a half hours for the stupid thing to download, I now see that I got off extremely lucky. Five hours? Damn.

And quit complaining about the $2, Kratos is worth it.

AngryEddy

can't wait to download the Last Guy demo.. i wasn't QUITE convinced by the trailer to just flat out buy it.

joeloliol

Need a hdtv for Last Guy. Way too hard to see much on sdtv.

GPman

YEAH! yggdra union trailer and wallpaper! yeah! yeah! yeah!

dislexiq

Still comments about the slow download speed? It seems I'm the only one who can download on the PSN at about 1MG/sec. Always. I must be near some important server or something.

I got R&C last night and beat it last night. It was a lot of fun though. I like the new mechanics, and graphics and environments are really pleasant to look at. And of course they had a few jokes that made me laugh. I hope you guys will enjoy it too. The only thing that kinda sucks is that the game is so short that we don't get the chance to upgrade the weapons much. We get about 7 weapons in all, and I don't think we can get them to more than level 5. Still. I'll start a new game on hard before I say anything else about that!

Kaneda

I would get Quest of Booty if I didn't check Sony EU's release list that listed a BD version of the game as well. Not sure if a BD release would ever make it to USA, but I am in no rush to get this right away.

gencid

ARE WE NOT MEN? WE ARE DEVO!!

Soooooo purchased.

bysty

Just finished the Force Unleashed demo... it kind of has a wonky camera and the targeting system for your force powers doesn't always target what you want it to.

Quest for Booty is good though, I just beat it. The only dissapointments I have with it are that once you beat the game you can't go back and revisit levels for fun, which makes searching for hidden weapon upgrades useless(and cuts out the replay value...I spent hours after beating ToD maxing out my weapons and replaying levels) and the sound isn't as good as Tools of Destruction, and I had to turn my home theater volume up way beyond what its normally at just to hear the game more clearly.

fenderfuel08

@dislexiq: I'm totally squishy over this game! Can't wait for it!

berribrand

@hastyp: I got my UMD for $30 and love it! Jeanne D'Arc is definitely worth the $23. Has some really nice cut scenes and imaginative story line. Graphics are great in battle as well. Much better than FF Tactics, IMHO, although it is somewhat less challenging.

berribrand

The PS3 just keeps getting better and better.

seven1097

Was anyone else annoyed by Vader's voice in TFU. It didn't seem that good.

The_Space_Pope

Loved TFU demo, hated The Last Guy demo. I seriously don't get the love for that at all, it's like a really hard to see version of Pacman.

Illusion

Force Unleashed was pretty wicked! The feeling of blasting down doors and rushing in, slicing everything up with your saber, is just awesome! Could use a bit of work on the targetting, as many others have mentioned, but still a lot of fun.

jiSh

I must say the Focre Unleashed demo pleasantly surprised me, especially since I am not a huge Star Wars fan.

*ducks and covers*

It really captures the feeling of having great power more than any other SW game I have played. I may actually pick this up (when the price drops a little, of course)

The Last Guy demo was a mix of good and bad, it was fun for a while but quickly became frustrating because the zombies are so hard to see I blindly ran into them a number of times.

lassiterb

@lassiterb: Aw, why'd you duck? That plastic lightsaber had your name on it.

My girlfriend hates Star Wars (childhood fears of Jabba the Hutt) and I told her soon as I saw it that I was purchasing Force Unleashed. Well, I might as well be a virgin again.

enigma89